December, 1799. The warships returned with no losses. Sweden attacked from the Canary Islands, which they do own, Sahara province and forced us out of it. We will take measures.
March, 1800. Sweden kills about 20,000 in Sahara.
April, 1800. We lost about three galleys, but the rest of the navy returned to Andalusia. Sweden being a bitch. Sweden then assaulted and captured Sahara province.
January, 1801. Getting nowhere with Sweden, they accepted a white peace at -9.
September, 1801. We declare war on France, with which we have naval parity and land superiority, to force her to open her markets to us.
March, 1802. The Bengal initiated an embargo against Fez. I see they are now allied with the Ottoman empire. Interesting. We declare war!
September, 1802. The Bengal helpfully offered, alone, 54 ducats to Fez as leader (with Delhi and the Chagatai Khanate). In this way the war against the wicked Ottomans may continue, but the embargo in the Bengal be ended.
Our navy currently be battered between France and the Ottoman Empire.
December, 1802. The Kongo has dared to insult Fez. Their days will be not long.
August, 1803. The Uzbeks (Ottoman allies) and the Ottomans are ready to settle, but we smell blood. We will have to liberate a province or two before we let the Ottoman swine go, and the Uzbek victories count against the Ottomans. Therefore, their time has not yet come.
With France, Fez wins battles 2:1 but because of various colonial issues (getting armies to remote locations) they have managed to maintain a good score. The battle continues.
September 1803. Whilst checking the Ottoman situation, I read "We control Uzbek." What the hell? I had forgotten, one of the Bengal's allies borders Delhi. Apparently chaos reigns over there and I had not noticed. Go Delhi!
(The Uzbek Khanate has done well for themselves here, having conquered most of Persia and stretching west all the way to a similarly talented Poland. Russia be not involved.)
April, 1804. France paid 50 ducats for peace. An African revolt reminded me that the Kongo had a number with Fez, but I forgot to execute the war.
I allowed the Uzbek Khanate out of the war in exchange for their giving Kushka to Delhi.
December, 1804. The wicked African subjects are in revolt. They shall be punished for this insolence.
April, 1807. Recently, the finance minister discovered that if Ottoman goats were permissible to sell, but only when Fezzan goats were not available, more profit was possible! Liberalism has been discovered!
January, 1808. We finally got the Mamelukes in the dirt (they are allied with their Ottoman masters), but the Ottomans have several rather large fortresses in provinces with no supply. We've been sitting at Cyrenacia for several years now, which hath a medium fortress.
February, 1808. The Bengal renewed their embargo. We renewed our war via Delhi.
June, 1808. The Mamelukes surrendered Alexandria and Delta to Fez.
May, 1809. The Ottomans gave unto Fez Tripolitania and Cyranacia for peace.
July, 1809. After a long war, (seven years) the Bengal offered an indemnity of 60 ducats. Fez be at peace once again.
March, 1810. France renewed its embargo. Fez will have to wait a while to let the people recover from the last war.
January, 1811. Fez declared war on France, for honour!
September, 1811. After kicking France around in several naval battles, Fez obtained 50 ducats and France reopened its markets to Fez.
In other news, here be La Plata. This map shows the entire country, but of course no capital may be seen. I realised at one point La Plata consisted of nothing but trade posts. Later they got lucky and a level one colony was attached to La Plata.
They have a ways to go before they get a capital!
September, 1812. Yet another plague on us.
Those are the Carribean holdings of great Fez.
September, 1814. Yet another political crisis.
Those are some south west African holdings of great Fez.
September, 1815. Fez moves overseas.
Methinks some minister embezzles our ducats.
November, 1815. Fez has built great roads to connect one part of Fez to the next, like the veins of a body, enabling traders to converge at their convenience. Pre-capitalism has been attained.
Fez has a monopoly in every trading centre in the world it has access to. (Note our excellent income, considering our weak goods production).
December, 1815. Bengal has done its thing once more. We will do ours.
January, 1816. Unfortunately, Fez's centre of trade in Mossi has closed, in spite of our efforts to allow foreign traders there. The replacements are Liguria (France) in Africa, and some Portuguese province completely surrounded by Fez in America. *shrug*
That's not too Mossi, that.
February, 1816. The war against the Bengal hath commenced. Unfortunately, the Ottoman Empire still has an alliance with them, so we will fight the Ottomans whilst the Delhians fight the Bengalis. Liguria now has 1200 ducats worth of trade...
March, 1817. Our struggle against the Mamelukes and Ottomans continues, them being allied to the Bengal still (and Delhi's struggle continues against the Bengal). Now France has announced a fresh embargo against innocent Fez. A war shall be our answer!
January, 1819. The last war.
March, 1819. We annexed the Mamelukes.
We then recieved Quattara and 150 ducats from the Ottomans. This also removed their trade embargo against valourous Fez. The Bengali embargo, by far the more important of the two, ends with it. However, a Malaccan embargo remains (who be vassals of the Ottomans).
Now only the war against France remains. We can't find their ships! Could they be busy? We don't have time for a protracted campaign against the haughty French, and so we must leave things as they be, unless of course some of their consderable navy decides to show itself, in which case, Fez shall sink of it and claim victory.
December, 1819. After a quiet year in which the cowardly French were not to be seen, Fez ended its great journey, master of most of Africa, controlling important swaths of other lands, and of course being the dominant actor in world finance. The future for Fez be limitless, and so it be the pleasure of every citizen in Fez to claim victory as the most successful of all the world's nations.
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Here be the final standings of Fez with respect to development and comparison internationally.
The United States actually did a fine job in this world, claiming many more provinces than it can usually. This became a problem for Fez in the last few years, when the United States initiated an embargo against helpless Fez, where as Fez could not adequately strike the United States across the great western ocean.
Fez hath one city and one colony in the Carribean, which, while an intriguing possibility, never amounted to any thing for Fez. A curious footnote in the annals of Fez, if you will.
Here be the map of South America. As one can see, Fez has a vibrant stake in the eastern coast, where Portugal once tried to blackmail Fez across the great western ocean. No longer. The small purple realm be Brazil. The southern city bordering the Incan Empire only recently became able to raise armies, and so for this and other reasons of propriety, the Incan Empire remains much as it has since time began.
Note also that La Plata hath gained its capital at last.
Over here we have the orient. Perhaps the only accomplishment more impressive than that of the Chagatai Khanate be that of the Bengal, which consolidated an impressive variety of lesser countries over rough terrain. Delhi's decent enough, although their success was limited by that of the Uzbek Khanate and of course the Bengal.
Europe. In some ways a standard looking Europe. Great white blob here, great blue blob there, but we have a great
northern blob as well, which subdued many a powerful neighbour. Note the border betwixt Poland and the Uzbek Khanate. Note also the very weak Russia. The area around Moskva be controlled by Austria. That also seems to be the Uzbeks in Syria.
Africa. Ahh, Africa. The land of Fez. Fez controls not all of Africa - far from it - but the world renowned empire of Fez be both harmonious and wealthy. Only a few revolts were recorded in Western Africa as of late.
Victory points. I feel sorry for China. I played a Chinese game once or twice. Bad decision.
Unfortunately I forgot to stop the clock at December 29th, so we get not percentages or those of the prior year, but here be some general information about our income. Trade dominates our income, as one might expect. France yielded about...oh...somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50 to 150 ducats per annum.
Territory size. I deselected China since they are plagiarizing the colour of Fez. Fez didn't meddle with Europe as a policy, though various nations dared us to. A shame we can't see the graphs for Poland, Sweden, the Uzbek Khanate and Austria.
Comparison table. My goodness, look at how rich Delhi be. They must have excellent production income. Fez, on the other hand, has far more land, and of course far better trading results.
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Notes:
- The word "is" does not appear in the A. A. R., "in character." I generally avoided it in comments too. If you find a wayward "is," let me know and it shall die a gruesome digital death.
- I went through several shitty image hosts. This was meant to be an image intensive thread, so the loss of those images was in many ways the destruction of my work. I first tried "ImgBolt," then a non login requiring offering of webshots (called "all you can upload"), then this "DivShare" host. My original host was not ImgBolt, but an obscure host which is actually more of a technology demonstration than a host (Allbrand.nu's PicturePoster) at which I somehow got an account in days gone by. They're iffy, but for what that is worth, I've never lost a picture from them they didn't let me know in advance about. The big problem with them is they have a 50MB daily bandwidth limit. Even with 100kb images, this thread was way too much for them. So I removed all but the first image (which is still hosted with them after all these years) and moved the rest to ImgBolt. I also experimented with imgsrc.ru (it didn't upload correctly or something...or maybe wouldn't link) and photobucket (which I tentatively thought I would move all the images to from DivShare, since they managed to "lose" a bunch of my screenshots without going off-line, but I decided insead to leave every thing where it is and keep a backup).
Therefore, there is a simple syntax (a brief description of which I shall add to the first post for future readers) for these pictures I took which are no longer. Instead of having broken images, I just link to where the pictures once were and added carats. There is some marginal possibility that the DivShare ones will be back, but I've waited months and there be no pictures, so fuck them. If you find an actual broken image which will not display when you reload the image/page, contact me, because I have it.
- This was my first A. A. R., and while it didn't take a whole lot of time, I took a whole lot of time. I've decided that I should get a lot done before announcing my projects, because if I don't, people will just forget I even announced any thing. That be my fault. Credit me though, I abandoned my report not.
- This isn't my last A. A. R. Oh no, I've got a new one planned. Want to know more? I will be playing one of the countries with which Fez was at war. That doesn't narrow it down much, does it? Haha! Perhaps it shall be the last of the Europa Universalis II A. A. Rs.
I've been thinking about For The Glory again, and I'm still cool about it, but I like how Michael is willing to get community feedback on it, and continue to improve it all this time. If he keeps that up I may just have to double up on that. I could always add the correct music to it (forgive me, but it's moronic to not choose from centuries of high quality music, but stick to the same few songs, be they of EUII or composed in some studio like the underscoring which passes as music in FtG). That said, I am talking about a time frame in years. I clearly have other things which interest me - other games, real life, you know, garbage like that.
- Thank you all for reading my topic, especially those which followed it from the start. I know it's basically gone off-line from the beginning, but hey, it keeps getting better until the finale! Wow!
From the imperial regent of Fez,
Hunter